 Certainly zeal for the crusade spread elsewhere in France, for Amatus of Montecassino notes that the "grand chivalry of the French and Burgundians and other peoples" ("grant chevalerie de Francoiz et de Borguegnons et d'autre gent") was present at the siege.Thus, a large army was present at the siege when it began in 1064 primarily of Frenchmen and Burgundians, along with a papal contingent, made up mostly of Italians, as well as a local Spanish army made up of Catalans and Aragonese.Later, these Catalan and Aragonese soldiers would be disgusted by the crimes committed by those Normans after the capture of the city.